Vladas Jakubėnas: Chamber and Instrumental Music
As composer, critic, teacher and musical activist, Vladas Jakubėnas (1904–76) was one of the major cultural figures in pre-World War Two Lithuania, before his post-War exile in the USA. As a student of Schreker in Berlin in 1928–32, he initially wrote in a Neoclassical style – as most of the works on this CD attest – and was nicknamed 'the Lithuanian Hindemith’. Back home, he began to compose in a late-Romantic, gently modernist idiom, tinged with the influence of Lithuanian folk-music.
Vilnius String Quartet, string quartet
Kasparas Uinskas, piano
Rusnė Mataitytė, violin
Edmundas Kulikauskas, cello
Albina Šikšniūtė, piano
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, chamber orchestra
Donatas Katkus, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
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String Quartet, Op. 4
- I. Allegro
- II. Adagio non troppo. Allegretto scherzando. Andante mosso. Adagio
- No. 1 ‘From the Land of Fairytales’
- No. 2 ‘Legend’
- Melody-Legend for violin and piano
- Serenade for cello and piano
- Prelude
- Fugue
Two Pictures, Op. 2, for piano
Prelude and Triple Fugue in D minor for string orchestra
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Luke Pratt :
Beautiful music, well performed and recorded. I very much look forward to the upcoming release of Jakubenas choral works.